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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Shortly before 8 a.m. on June 16 1948 three young Chinese communists irrupted into the office of a large remote rubber plantation shot Arthur Walker its veteran British manager and calmly rode off into the jungle on their bicycles. Thus only three short years after the end of the Japanese occupation war came again to Malaya. The Chinese-backed guerrillas called it the War of the Running Dogs- their contemptuous term for those in Malaya who remained loyal to the British. The British Government delicately referred to this bloody and costly struggle as the “Malayan Emergency’. Yet it was a war that lasted twelve years cost thousands of lives. among them those of many women and children. By the time it was all over Malaya had obtained its independence-but on British not on Chinese or Communist terms. The Malayan campaign will go down in history as the world’s first defeat of communist guerrilla warfare. As in Sinister Twilight his reconstruction of the Fall of Singapore Noel Barber has written a vivid comprehensive book about this important war in South East Asia based on assiduous research and scores of interviews with the principal participants on both sides-from ex-communist guerrilla leaders in the Malayan jungle to Field Marshal Templer. (SP)